Improvement in medical compounds



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS MORLEY, OF OAMERIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 134,762, dated January 14, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS MORLEY, of Cambridge, in the district and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain Improvement called the Small-POX and Fever Cure, of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my said invention consists in mixing cream of tartar and rhubarb together, thus forming a dry powder or in mixing the same with pure water, thus forming a liquid compound.

To prepare the compound in the liquid form, take said ingredients in the proportion of cream of tartar, three-fourths ounce rhubarb, twelve grains; pure water, one gillapothecaries weight.

To prepare the same in the form of powder, take cream of tartar and rhubarb in the pro portions above mentioned.

When prepared in either of the ways above described this compound forms the simplest of medicines, and is perfectly harmless in every respect, the unpleasant and often dangerous effects of many medicines being in this wholly wanting; but, nevertheless, it is a perfeet and never-tailing remedy forsmall-pox and fever. When taken in any stage of the former disease its beneficial effects become apparent in a few hours, and when taken in the first stage, it at once arrests the fever attendant upon the disease, and restores the patient in two or three days.

As a remedy for the usual forms of fever this compound has the same general effect and efficacy as in the case of small-pox. It at once allays the burning and parching effects of the fever by its soothing qualities, and cures the patient completely.

This compound is a very simple, and at the same time efficient, remedy, both for smallpox and fever, and particularly for the former.

The dose for an adult is a wine-glassfull of the liquid compound added to double that quantity of Water; for a child, half as much. The dose for an adult of the powder is three drams and six grains, apothecaries weight, mixed in a tumbler-full of water; for a child, half as much.

I claim as my invention-- A compound, whether in the form of powder or liquid, com posed of the ingredients aforesaid. and substantially in the proportions and for the purposes set forth.

THOMAS MORLEY.

In presence of- GEORGE F. (JRooK, THOMAS MORLEY, Jr. 

